After yesterdays outbreak of patriotism on the front pages,the reality of defeat looms large over the Sundays

BRAVE ENGLAND FALL TO BATTLING BOKS says the Times

LAST night before the big screen behind the Eiffel Tower, tens of thousands of English rugby fans died a slow, drunken death. South Africa stole the World Cup from Jonny Wilkinson’s team of veteran brawlers in an ugly, deadlocked game that broke the rugged tactics of the heroic but outclassed England squad.
It could have been so different but for a disallowed try just after half time. After that the Boks drained the life out of the game with their kicking and even the sudden appearance of the aging, raging bull Lawrence Dallaglio was not enough. The Boks won the game 15-6.


TEARS AS ENGLAND LOSE WORLD CUP says the Telegraph

English dreams lay broken after the team lost 15-6 to South Africa in the Rugby World Cup final in Paris.There were tears flowing in the French capital, on and off the pitch, after the Springboks won by five penalties to two, both kicked by England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson.


THE FINAL HEARTBREAK says the Observer

Perhaps the most poinient,the News of the World which tells us

WORLD Cup hero Jason Robinson was given the heart-breaking news moments after the final that his "second mum" has died.Mary Hawley, the woman Jason credited with transforming him from wayward teen to rugby great, lost her battle with cancer days before the World Cup started.
His closest friends kept the tragic secret from him throughout the competition, culminating in the toughest and last match of his glittering career against South Africa.
They feared he would be so distraught he would not have been able to focus on the tournament...the last thing Mary would have wanted.

Away from the Rugby,the Mail on Sunday leads with the headline

Tony Blair: I'm like an abused and bullied wife

Tony Blair's allies were accused of trying to sabotage Gordon Brown's Government last night after sensational revelations about rows between the two men in a new book written with unprecedented access to Mr Blair's Downing Street.
The book by Britain's leading political biographer, Dr Anthony Seldon, discloses a series of explosive clashes as Mr Brown plotted to force Mr Blair to resign.
And it gives a revealing insight into the tensions in Mr Brown's inner circle with a series of venomous disclosures about one of the Prime Minister's closest allies, Schools Secretary Ed Balls.

Lack of NHS dentists forces patients abroad reports the Telegraph

In the past 10 weeks, Lisa Hewer has twice thought seriously about taking her own life. ''In moments of utterly agonising pain I've considered taking a handful of these, washing them down with something alcoholic and putting myself out of this misery for good," she says dejectedly.
Opening her clasped palm, she reveals two white tablets: they are the morphine-based painkillers Lisa was prescribed after the intensive dental treatment she received abroad to replace two missing teeth caused a raging gum infection so severe that her face swelled to twice its size, forcing both her eyes shut.

Police: stop more black suspects says the Observer

One of Britain's leading black police officers is to demand that more people from ethnic minorities must be stopped and searched if the fight against inner-city gun and knife crime is to succeed.
In a speech that will reignite one of the most contentious issues in British policing, the president of the National Black Police Association will dramatically call for an increase in the policing strategy in black communities. It marks a U-turn by the association, which has previously questioned the high proportion of black people stopped and searched by police

The Times reports from Pakistan where its correspondent was on the bus when the bombs went off

'It was what we feared, but dared not to happen'

THE sound came first. A low, ominous bang, like the sound of a large metal door clanging shut.

I was standing in the middle of Benazir Bhutto’s open-top bus, talking to Aitzaz Ahsan, her long-time legal adviser. We stared at each other in horror. This was what we had all feared but somehow, crazily, dared to hope wouldn’t happen.
Someone shouted: “Down!” But there was no need. A wall of orange flame came over the left side of the bus and blasted us all to the floor.
The twanging music that for nine hours had been blaring out, welcoming Bhutto home after eight years in exile, stopped. For a moment there was ghastly silence.

The Observer reports that

Bhutto defiant as bombing suspects held by police

Even her supporters call it 'blind faith'. In a Karachi mortuary last week it was a faith articulated by Rustam, a poor Sindhi farmer, who choked back tears as he searched for the body of his slain brother. 'If we have to, I will sacrifice 10 more brothers,' he said.
Last week the growing political cult of Benazir Bhutto was cemented in the most terrible way, amid bomb blasts and bloodshed, during a rapturous return to Pakistan, the country from which she was exiled. Suddenly a persecution which seemed soft and unshaped during her years of exile has been given a hard edge by events.

COPS RUIN MADELEINE DNA CLUES reports the Sunday Mirror

Crucial evidence which could nail Madeleine McCann's abductor was contaminated by ash from policemen's cigarettes.
The ash was discovered by Portuguese forensic experts among samples from the McCanns' apartment in Praia da Luz taken soon after Madeleine vanished.
Three Portuguese detectives were seen smoking as they walked in and out of the ground-floor apartment on May 4, the day after Madeleine disappeared.
They were seen by a witness laughing and joking among themselves.

GUARD AS GERRY RETURNS TO WORK says the front of the Express

POLICE are poised to protect heart surgeon Gerry McCann when he makes an emotional return to work.
Officers yesterday visited him at home to finalise security arrangements at the hospital where he is a consultant cardiologist and has been on unpaid leave since his daughter Madeleine vanished on May 3, just before her fourth birthday.

The Observer reports that

British women treat abortion as the easy option, claims angry Archbishop

The British public is in danger of losing its 'moral focus' on abortion and treating the procedure as normal, rather than a last resort, says the Archbishop of Canterbury.
With the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act less than a week away, Dr Rowan Williams uses an article in today's Observer to claim that people are close to slipping to a new 'default position' on the issue.

C of E child abuse was ignored for decades says the Telegraph

Information that could have prevented abuse has been "lost or damaged", concerns about individuals have been ignored and allegations have not been recorded. It means that the Church has no idea how many paedophiles are in its midst.
Lawyers warned last night that the Church faces a crisis as catastrophic as the one that engulfed the Roman Catholic Church and cost it millions of pounds in damages


EastEnders evicted in latest BBC cost cut reports the Telegraph

Television's most famous address is under notice to quit its present site as EastEnders joins the BBC's cost-cutting drive.Albert Square will be relocated, possibly to the Pinewood film lot, and the Elstree site sold. The medical drama Holby City, also filmed at Elstree, may have to share a set with another series, Casualty, possibly in Cardiff. Casualty is filmed in Bristol.

STRICTLY SABOTAGE reports the Mirror

Angry Bbc workers are plotting to sabotage the sound and lighting of a live broadcast of Strictly Come Dancing.
Celebrity dancers Kelly Brook, Penny Lancaster and John Barnes could be plunged into darkness and silence.
A group of around 150 BBC staff - who have been dubbed "The Counting House Conspirators" after the pub where they hatched the plot - will target the BBC's biggest hit shows.


LSD article plays tricks on Huhne’s mind reports the Times

NO wonder the Liberal Democrats are all over the place: one of the contenders for the party leadership once declared that opium could be “safely experimented with” and that LSD “holds no surprises”.
This weekend Chris Huhne is discovering, just as David Cameron before him, that his undergraduate days at Oxford can come back to haunt him. Last night Huhne, 53, was doing his best to disown an article he appears to have written in an Oxford student magazine about the benefits of illegal hard drugs.
The piece, which bears his name as an 18-year-old student at Oxford University in the 1970s, states that drugs such as opium, LSD, and amphetamines should be an “accepted facet of our society”.


Huhne plays the age card as Lib Dem hopefuls square up says the Observer

Liberal Democrat leadership candidate Chris Huhne played the 'age card' last night, saying that his experience would stand him in good stead against his younger rival, Nick Clegg.
As the two candidates for the Liberal Democrat leadership went head-to-head for the first time, Huhne said he had fought three general elections and had the political ballast to lead the party.

Meanwhile the Mail reports

No high-tech scanners for Commons over fears terrorists could chop off MP's finger to get in

Plans to use fingerprint scanners to control entry to the Commons have been abandoned over fears that terrorists could cut off an MP's finger to get inside.
Security advisers have warned that a suicide bomber would have no compunction about removing a politician's finger to fool scanners.
The decision appears to stem from concerns that MPs could become real-life victims of scenes played out in last week's episode of BBC1's MI5 drama Spooks - in which agent Ros Myers, played by Hermione Norris, removed a dead man's index finger in order that his fingerprint-encoded laptop could be accessed.


MIGRANTS WILL PUSH POPULATION UP 24M reports the Express

The study by a Cambridge University economist says the Government has badly under- estimated the impact of immigration.
Professor Robert Rowthorn also accuses ministers of “spin” over their claims that immigration does not affect wage and employment levels.
In a devastating conclusion he says: “Large-scale immigration is of minor economic benefit to the existing population of the UK, although it is certainly of benefit to the immigrants, their families and sometimes their countries of origin.”

Amongst the gossip in the Sundays,the News of the World has an exclusive


THE cleaning lady who has been romping with former England boss Sven Goran Eriksson has spilled the dirt on their bizarre fling. Single mum Saima Ansari told how the smitten Manchester City boss SHOWERED her with expensive gifts, HANDED her £10,000 to pay off her debts and even promised to pay her MORTGAGE on their nights of love in his five-star hotel suite.

Finally the Telegraph reports

Eat that chocolate, it will help you slim

Psychologists have found that suppressing the desire leads to a "rebound" effect in which a woman simply eats more when she gives in.
The scientists believe their findings may help explain why some women are prone to "yo-yo" dieting and binge eating after cutting back.